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What caused the Amazon river to reverse direction? Scientists have long debated what caused this reversal, but a new study using computer modeling suggests that cause might have been a massive amount of slow, yet steady, erosion from the Andes mountains as they grew, millions of years ago.

Image: Amazon River / NASA

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